![]() Of course I had to get my hands on that novel to see what the fuss was over this minor character named Rhine Fontaine who appeared in a book that was published 18 years ago. ![]() ![]() It was enlightening and liberating that while historical romances about minorities are small in number, they are out there. I still need to get my hand on a Jeannie Lin book, but one author at at time. I also began Google searching Jenkins and came across mentions of the then-upcoming Forbiddenand how it would be the beginning of a new series taking place in the Old West and that the hero was a minor character in her 1998 novel, Through the Storm. It wasn’t the uptight regency rule and regulations in a ballroom novel I know and love, but it was full of characters that looked like me and my family and aspects of our history and family life and perseverance that weren’t solely slavery and The Civil Rights Movement. My discovery of Smart Bitches Trashy Books in fall 2015 lead me to their podcast with Jenkins and a review of her novel Destiny’s Captive, which I immediately requested from my library and finished in a day. Historical romances are without a doubt my favorite in the genre, but it stinks that unless there’s a “gypsy,” people of color are virtually non-existent. While this is not my first Beverly Jenkins rodeo, I’m still pretty new to the fandom. Genre: Historic Romance, African American ![]()
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